last night was weird. i went to sleep thinking about the earthquake, then my phone rang at 5:30 a.m. i didn’t pick up, and they didn’t leave a message. grrr. then my phone rang again at 7:00. didn’t answer again, this time it was the woman from village on the lake apartments in houston, who left a message, and obviously has not been listening the two times that i’ve told her i’m in california right now and therefore am 2 hours behind houston time. grrr again.
so yeah, i have my california earthquake story now. brian, who has lived in the bay area all his life, was quite amused at those of us in the aero/astro library exclaiming about experiencing our first earthquake. he laughed and said “oh that was nothing!” he said what we felt was probably about a magnitude 3, since we were so far from the epicenter. he said the strongest he’s ever felt is a 5.7 (he was out of town for the 1989 quake). alberto was around for the ’89 one, which was 6.9 or 7.1 or something, and so he was even more amused by our “newbie” reaction. oh well. even so, the one yesterday was the strongest in this area in 10 years, and i still think it was exciting.
i’m tired of being teased at breakers and told i have the mind of a 13-year-old. grrr. dorks. tonight i made cherry cobbler, which turned out quite yummy. i had to pitt all the cherries, and as luck would have it, one that i missed turned up in my piece of cobbler. i chomped down on the cherry and ow! it was funny.
hmm, i’m trying to think if there’s anything i need to do tonight. i got my 271 homework assignment done this afternoon, so that’s out of the way…yeah, i don’t think i have any more homework due until friday. cool! that means i should definitely be able to go to the braves-giants game tomorrow afternoon. i’m going by myself, because no one will come with me. weird, eh? i have asked more than a dozen people, and they either 1) are busy, or 2) find baseball extremely boring. wackos.
oh. since i posted that entry about the possibility of ending this online adventure, i’ve gotten three emails–including one from someone i’ve never met–telling me that they enjoy reading, and i should keep writing. so i guess i will.
(11:41 p.m.)
got back from a run a while ago. i only went 2.5 miles, but i ran at a 9:52 pace. good for me. faster is what i want to be. i have a month before i want to be able to do a 5k in a half hour or less. that’s a pace of 9:40. i’m almost there. 12 seconds faster per mile, and 0.6 more miles and i’m there.